Present to the author from Dalai Lama of cream cheeses, dried apricots and dried apples, wrapped in chintz and sealed with Dalai Lama's round red seal. Presented to me on 29 April 1921. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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View of the package, with seal at neck. Subjects = Bell Collection; Dalai Lama; food and drink; seals Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Hide boat (ko-wa) in our lingka [park], lft there for an hour while the owner went off to get his dinner, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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View of the interior of the boat, which is standing up-ended, showing the wooden framework:'The hide is yak skin, the wooden supports are willow, and the rope round the central wooden support is of yak hair. Note the oar on the left of the boat. The trees [in background] are willow.' Subjects ...
A room in the house of the Dalai Lama's A.D.C. (Tsen-dron). His younger brother and two monks drinking tea and talking. The brother is on the right. Between the two cups of tea on the table there is a Tibetan inkpot. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; furniture and furnishings; interiors; monks; private houses; religion; religion (Buddhism); Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Soldier's shrine at Gyantse, wives burn incense on it when husbands are absent on active service, and write their names on paper and suspend them from the robes at the side. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; prayer; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious observances; religious observances (Buddhist) Location = Gyantse; Tibet